How long can you hold your breath?
What is a rite of passage? Examples?
Preview vocabulary: contrition, luminous, supplication, sputtering, beseeching, minute, clambered, incredulous, gout
Prediction of story using title
Single parent family- Does that create different pressures on the children? Why is Jerry always so kind to his mother?
When have you ever taken a risk?
What kind of risk was it? physical (injury, death) emotional or social (rejection, outcast)
What consequences were possible and/or actual? Success or Failure?
What effect did the risk have on you? Did it change you or your thinking?
During or After Reading:
Why do you think Jerry got frequent nose bleeds?
When Jerry was in the tunnel, why did he constantly scrape himself on the top?
During reading thinking: What type of risk is involved in each action the character takes? Is the risk physical, emotional, social?
Why does the character(s) take the risks?
What is the motivation for taking the risk? Should the motivation matter? What difference does it make?
How might the character change (mature, grow, evolve) as a result of taking the risk?
After reading: Complete risk chart
Identify and discuss conflicts in the story.
Discuss during reading questions above.
Independent Reflection: Discuss in groups or partners OR Write as an assignment Response Questions Assessment
Generalization: Risk-taking (facing challenges) is often a rite of passage into a new level of maturity. Student take risks for various reasons: to impress others, to prove something to themselves. Be reflective about your risk-taking. Which risks are worth taking? What are good or bad reasons for taking certain risks?
Concepts: maturity, risk-taking as rite of passage (facing challenges),
Conflict: character vs. self
character vs. character
character vs. nature
Connections: Judgments and evaluations of characters to their own lives
Rites of passage they've experienced or know about (teens, gangs, culture (quincinera))
Challenges they have faced
Risks they have taken or have been asked to take
Copy of story
Summary of story
Audio version of story
Video trailer introduction
Before reading anticipatory ideas:
How long can you hold your breath?
What is a rite of passage? Examples?
Preview vocabulary: contrition, luminous, supplication, sputtering, beseeching, minute, clambered, incredulous, gout
Prediction of story using title
Single parent family- Does that create different pressures on the children? Why is Jerry always so kind to his mother?
When have you ever taken a risk?
What kind of risk was it? physical (injury, death) emotional or social (rejection, outcast)
What consequences were possible and/or actual? Success or Failure?
What effect did the risk have on you? Did it change you or your thinking?
During or After Reading:
Why do you think Jerry got frequent nose bleeds?
When Jerry was in the tunnel, why did he constantly scrape himself on the top?
During reading thinking: What type of risk is involved in each action the character takes? Is the risk physical, emotional, social?
Why does the character(s) take the risks?
What is the motivation for taking the risk? Should the motivation matter? What difference does it make?
How might the character change (mature, grow, evolve) as a result of taking the risk?
After reading: Complete risk chart
Identify and discuss conflicts in the story.
Discuss during reading questions above.
Independent Reflection: Discuss in groups or partners OR Write as an assignment Response Questions
Assessment
Generalization: Risk-taking (facing challenges) is often a rite of passage into a new level of maturity. Student take risks for various reasons: to impress others, to prove something to themselves. Be reflective about your risk-taking. Which risks are worth taking? What are good or bad reasons for taking certain risks?
Concepts: maturity, risk-taking as rite of passage (facing challenges),
Conflict: character vs. self
character vs. character
character vs. nature
Connections: Judgments and evaluations of characters to their own lives
Rites of passage they've experienced or know about (teens, gangs, culture (quincinera))
Challenges they have faced
Risks they have taken or have been asked to take